The first meeting of Retrosheet, Inc. was held in Arlington, TX on June 17,
1994. The collection of game accounts in hand that fall was about 50% of games
played from 1901 through 1983. Fewer than 10,000 games had been computerized and
none had been proofed and released at that point.

By the time of the 10th meeting in 2003, the collection of game accounts
represented 63% of the games played from 1901 through 1983. The computerized
games had grown to 68,485 with at least one game in the computer for every year
in that time span. Retrosheet volunteers had proofed and released 19 complete
seasons of data.

During the 20th meeting in 2013, it was announced that we now had game
accounts for 82% (96,139 of 116,961) of the 1901 to 1983 games. 74% (86,949)
of those had computerized. For 1901-2012, our volunteers had computerized
84% of the games played (152,745 of 182,757), and we had released 62 seasons
play-by-play accounts.

The principal topic of discussion at our second meeting in 1995 was how to distribute
data files once they were available. Copying files to floppy disk (remember
them?) was the primary option. At the 1997 meeting (our fourth), it was
announced that our first two released seasons, 1982 and 1983, were available on
our very own website. This was an exciting development and major step for the
organization.

In 2001, the website expanded greatly when the section with game logs, box
scores and player statistics opened. This addition made the Retrosheet website
one of the most visited Internet sites for baseball. As Jayson Stark said a few
years later:

"Do
we even remember life before Retrosheet? ... For triviologists like myself, it's like hitting the
lottery every time I click on it."

The following links will take you to various items of interest in the history
of the organization.